Considering I've got a crappy, bottom of the range laptop at home and the latency of all actions is much, much lower (on ubuntu), I'm sticking to "7's fault" rather than buying more equipment. The other laptop has a 7200 rpm disk with 16GB ram to use for (pre)caching and I'm complaining about latency of basic action like work with Outlook or using explorer to look through folders - how hard can it be to display emails/files?
Thanks for the info about the firewall - I can't find anything advanced however. Have you got some links / screens? I can see only the same old on / off / per-application thing.
Ooh maybe you're on Windows 7 home? I'm on professional. That could be a difference.
When I use it, I go to: Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall and then select "advanced settings" on the left. Do you have that option?
Thanks for the info about the firewall - I can't find anything advanced however. Have you got some links / screens? I can see only the same old on / off / per-application thing.